By incorporating patient-oriented research through consultation and patient-related outcome measures, we hope our study will be clinically meaningful to patients and providers, and will provide new ...

Some researchers may view the engagement of patients as unnecessary since it adds substantial complexity and expense to health research. There is no clear gold standard yet for how to undertake ...

Does engaging patients in research projects improve health? A comprehensive collection -- from youth involvement in mental health services to suicide prevention, Indigenous health, children with ...

Brief summaries of the research carried out by the 12 patient-oriented researchers selected by HHMI in 2002 In 2002, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) completed its first competition ...

One barrier is that most insurance companies do not yet reimburse preventive therapies for adults, meaning patients face higher costs and dentists make less profit. But this is changing, said Rechmann ...

Researchers who are conducting patient-oriented research, which engages patients in research to improve health and health care, may find a home for their research in CMAJ Open and CMAJ, announces ...

Got ‘bugs in your urine’ or an ‘impressive’ X-ray? Doctors’ jargon can be confusing, especially terms with different everyday and medical meanings.

The Prostate Cancer Index (PCI) is a health profile instrument that measures health-related quality of life with six subscales: urinary, sexual, and bowel function and bother. The Patient-Oriented ...

The coverage, accuracy, and readability of cancer information on Wikipedia are compared with the patient-orientated National Cancer Institute's Physician Data Query comprehensive cancer database.